Why The Proper Office Furniture Makes for a Great Educational and Training Environment
Having a teacher in the front of the room does automatically make the room an ideal learning environment. Not even the greatest teacher can overcome the obstacles of poorly designed desks, chair, and other sorts of classroom furniture. The foundation of great education always includes a classroom outfitted with well-made furniture. In short, great education is based on great facilities.
A good way to realize the importance of good furniture in the classroom is to realize that this is where students spend most of their day. Like their parents in the office, the physical environment of the pupil should be set up in a way that promotes productivity and creativity. The young age of schoolchildren does not disqualify them from access to the latest and best office furniture.
And anyone wanting to use great furniture for their classroom should start by evaluating the needs of each room. What exactly will the classroom be used for? This way, it becomes easier to select the proper office furniture to adapt to the student environment. Will the class in question concentrate on serious matters, require the free flow of communication, encourage creative output, or a combination of all three and more?
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November 25, 2006Habersham Launches New and Improved Website
Habersham has launched a new and improved website to encapsulate the style and range of its full line of residential furniture designs, kitchen and bath custom cabinetry. The newly designed site on the internet, which is located at www.habershamdesigns.com, responds to market trends and customer needs with the use of a more comprehensive showcase of product offerings and a number of new user-friendly site features and options, literature and more information, all found in the website. Other new features of the website include a section highlighting the company’s national consumer ads and a press room. Also, the website boasts of a special password protected trade log-in area for dealers, designers and other trade partners.
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November 24, 2006Cook’s Office Furniture sells its Family business in Tuscaloosa
Jan Cook Kendrick, owner and daughter of the late founder Dempsey Cook of Cook’ Office Furniture, 40 years in operation is closing the company which has a 12,000-square-foot warehouse and showroom on University Lane, just south of the intersection of 35th Street and Greensboro Avenue.
Jan Cook Kendrick is leasing the space that the company is built in until the time that the rest of the inventory has been sold-out from Billy Blakeney of the Blakeney Co. which would practically take months. “We are going to offer the building for a new tenant in the very near future,” Blakeney said . He hopes to find a similar line of business to occupy the location.
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November 17, 2006Urbandale business sells more than paper clips
The office supply business has develop from typewriter ribbons, carbon paper and mimeograph ink to toner for desktop printers and state-of-the-art office furniture. This is according to Dick Triplett.
Dick Triplett, 63, is the founder of the 33-year-old Triplett company in Urbandale. From its roots as an office supply company, it has developed into one with several divisions that include office supplies, commercial printing, office furniture and design.
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November 16, 2006H and L Office Furniture advises a sick-free office for increased productivity
Every year, it can be counted upon that thousands of Australians are going to be inflicted with illness during the flu season, and many of them are going to report to the office sick and sharing that flu with their colleagues. While many employers prefer that an employee be in than out of the office while collecting pay, there are times when having them call in sick is healthier for the company’s bottom line.
The simple fact is that employees who are sick are often forced to wrap themselves up, pack some medicine and come in if it is humanly possible. So they crawl into their workspace with their runny nose, cough and fever. They are not going to be as prolific in the office because their body is wracked with the coughing, sniffling, and miserable mind-set that go with a cold or flu.
Even at their best effort, a sick employee is only going to be able to deliver only 50 percent to three quarters of their regular work load. For an employer, that means you are paying for a full work day but getting less in ROI in terms of maximizing time and productivity.
The one thing they will be productive at is spreading germs. Each time they cough or sneeze they are sending thousands of germs into the air, germs that the rest of your personnel will then breathe in. They may have to deliver documents to the desk of a manager or a co-worker.
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November 15, 200640-year old Office Furniture company closes their doors
After being in the furniture business for almost four decades, Cook’s Office Furniture is making arrangements to shut and lock up their doors for good.
Owner of the office furniture company, Jan Cook Kendrick, daughter of the late founder Dempsey Cook, has sold the company’s 12,000-square-foot warehouse and showroom located on the University Lane, south of the intersection of 35th Street and Greensboro Avenue.
The new owner is Billy Blakeney of the Blakeney Co. She is now leasing the space until the residual inventory can be sold. Blakeney has hopes in finding a comparable business to occupy the location and speaks of offering the furniture office and warehouse to a new tenant in the near future.
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November 14, 2006Walk and Work, Great Way to Lose Weight at Work
Working an 9-5 job can contribute to an individual’s weight problem and most office employees are aware of it. Due to time limitations, most office employees wish that they can spend the same time and effort on exercise to at least if not lose the pounds, keep themselves fit, as they have on office work.
This need is quite real that the researchers have looked into addressing it. U.S. Professor James Levine and Jennifer Miller of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester have designed a multi-purpose plexi-glass desk that an office employee will be able to set over a regular treadmill and act as a vertical workstation. The employee will be able to work on the computer while simultaneously using the treadmill, doing walk-exercises. They can set the speed of the exercise equipment at a comfortable pace so that they can still do their work. It’s a real nifty idea and seemingly the answer to every office employee with a weight problem.
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November 13, 2006Tips in setting up your work station and your computer on your office desk
Working a nine-to-five job would mean being surrounded by papers, numbers and, you guessed it, office furniture. And the most common office equipment that an office employee uses to do his or her work is the computer. Here are some great tips on how to set this piece of equipment up on your work desk to utilise and maximize space and help you achieve a comfortable work station.
Determine the size of your office desk. Does it look cramped? This can tell you if you need to let the company know if you need to upgrade your office desk or work on getting a separate computer table.
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November 12, 2006The Dread of Office Desks
Here is an interesting fact. Scientific studies show that the average toilet seat has been found to have about 49 germs per square inch. While this information is quite not that surprising, there is something more we must know, especially to those who works tireless hours at their office desks. A recent study conducted by an authoritative group of researchers concluded that the average office desk harbors about 20,961 germs per square inch, which is 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. It is indeed very, very surprising.
The crux of the problem isn’t working at one’s desk alone. Desks were just plain desks when workers had time to live the rest of their lives elsewhere. Now more than ever, office desks have become cafeteria trays, footrests, manicure stations and coffee bars. Employees eat off them, sleep on them and in several instances, flossed teeth at them. Utterly gross but admittedly true.
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November 11, 2006U.S. Distributor acquires NDI Wholesale
A Colorado office furniture distributor has acquired Nashville-based NDI Wholesale, the largest office furniture wholesaler in the Southeast.
NDI, a 27-year-old company that serves more than 530 customers throughout a seven-state region, was acquired by OfficeSource located in Denver, Colorado. Terms of the acquisition were not released yet.
NDI’s service areas include Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, besides Tennessee.
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